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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

butterflies and bows...

Morning all day 3 of the easter hols and counting lol !!! todays card is for a new challenge at crafts and me where our challenge this week is to use butterflies and bows on your card ,i have used one of my fave sara burrier images she is called porcini and is stunning isnt she ,i was so pleased with how this turned out i do love digi images as they are instant and when it comes to crafting me has no patience lol but i dont like being limited to using copics and as much as i love my copics some images just scream distress inks at me so i printed the image on my usual watercolour paper and left it for over a week and when i came to paint it surprisingly it was fine no smearing at all impressive eh !! in the past i have tried leaving them overnight but they smeared so i gave up and stuck with copics but i really wanted to paint this one so i tried again and wooo hooo success !! i know a lot of people emboss the image and then paint but i cant be bothered with all that and im not that keen on embossing anyway so as long as i plan ahead problem solved !!

so here she is porcini painted with distress inks ,papers are from a gorgeous pad from the scrapcake that i discovered this week very yummy !!

Gorgeous card Sara!! love your pretty design,your image is stunning!Have you tried using your heat gun on the image before painting? I do and it works for me. I go over the image a couple of times with the heat gun first.Love, Mel. xxx

Oh Sara this is stunning! Love the design and colours, gorgeous image too. I am soooo in love with these papers!! I will be trying both yours and mels tips for leaving and/or drying image Love and hugs Kat xx

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hi bloggers im sara i live in lancashire uk with my partner and our 2 gorgeous boys . I've been crafting one way or another all my life really then 5 years ago i discovered papercrafting and am now completely addicted !! i love my stamps especially anything tilda !! and am quite partial to a small mountain of papers !! not to mention dies and punches etc etc etc
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